Weekend update.3-3-2013

Last week I read a Blog (sorry forget from who) about building armies for 15mm, and this got me thinking about my armies, and what I have been doing about building them. You all know of my Space Orcs, and my Praetorian guard, and my Mid tech from Khurasan, but I also have some Peter Pig scifi  guys. I am not sure they sell the range any more. I have had these for some years, and never cared to much for them. See the minis are fine, it just the guns, they suck!!!!!!! It is like the hole army is armed with search light guns..... So going back and forth I decided to use them as TAU like race. Maybe an earlier TAU, one not so advanced, but still has very good tech. So I pulled them out of the old Army transporter case and set to finishing them off. Mostly they needed their bases done. I did finish painting about 10 of them, then finished the bases. I started with Rock putty, then paint, and then flock/static grass.

The elite.

Fire Warriors

Tau-ri regulars

Drone, and battle suit

OK now I have worked on this army, I still have two of the tanks (one above) to finish, as well as three APC. Then I decided to take a photo of how I have the laid out in the army line up.

KNight in background Marx Golden knight, and a  Roman I got from Small Blue Planet with
real metal bitz like swords, ans helm.

Gray is more 15mm to be painted. The wooden tray is a printer drawer. Hung on the wall
it holds my 28mm stuff. I have 4 of these trays in my home office.
The other two have all my GorkaMorka stuff.

So I spent time with an old army this weekend, but I did not get to play Tribes.

Noel

Yet Another Timely Post From ME!

Hi All,
I have been busy as all ways, and have only grabbed hobby time in small bits. I have been working on the TV room in our house. We have not been using our TV room, or Den for years, and have decided to make it a functional room for the hole family. So I ripped out the carpet and put down a new floor. Now the only ones who liked the carpet was the dogs, and they used it as a toilet.

Here is the floor half done. I was completely done after finishing this project.

Next on the mini front, I was able to pick up some new to me minis online. A great Guy was parting with some Khurasan units (unpainted), and some Old Crow vehicles. Here is the prime box I used. The tanks I did on another box in black.

I was able to offer him what he wanted, and they cam in this past week. I have all was wanted to get some of the Khurasan units as they are very nice looking, kinda like Haloish. But I was never sure how I would paint them up. So as I was moving crap around my desk at home I saw my copy of Battle Field 2142 (PC game) and I loved the way the units would have Orange on there uniforms. Also I do not buy into the need for camo in the future. With tech being as high as it is now, I do not need to really see you. So I opted for a simple OD green, with Orange added. I have painted and dipped them I just now need to do the bases, and come back with a mat or flat finish coat to dull them out. The APC is just painted and not finished yet, soon I will dip it!!!

So I do like them.
Next I have been reading the Micro scenarios from Gaven from 15mm UK, and I am going to play them all out in Universal Battle. I am going to change it up a bit, but putting Space Orcs up as the bad guys. I got this idea from a guy running the old RT At The Farm scenario, and I loved the AAR he did. So keep you eyes open for a bit on that set of games. Oh yes I will be using USE ME for the rules.